Sagalika, Sagaliya, Sāgalikā, Sāgaliyā: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesOne of the heterodox sects which branched off from the Theravada in Ceylon (Mhv.v.13).
They formed a part of the Dhammarucikas, and separated from that body three hundred and forty one years after the establishment of Buddhism in Ceylon. They lived at first in the Dakkhina vihara, but later went to the Jetavana vihara, built by Mahasena. They made certain alterations in the Ubhatovibhanga (MT.175, 176; Cf. Sas.p.24; see also Mhv.xxxvii.32 ff., and MT.680).
According to the Singhalese Nikayasangrahaya (Quoted in Geigers Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa, p.90), the Sagalikas took their name from their leader, Sagala Thera, and their separation took place seven hundred and ninety five years after the Buddhas death, in the reign of King Gothabhaya. Moggallana I. gave the viharas of Dalha and Dathakondanna, on Sihagiri, to the Dhammarucikas and the Sagalikas, while he also gave the Rajini nunnery for the use of the nuns of the Sagalika sect (Cv.xxxix.41, 43). Aggabodhi II. gave the Veluvana vihara, which he had built, to the Sagalikas (Cv.xlii.43). Kassapa IV. built for them the Kassapasenavihara. Cv.lii.17.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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Full-text: Dathavedhaka, Dathakondanna, Kassapasena, Rajini, Ussillya Tissa, Sihagiri, Moggallana, Dhammaruci.
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